Thing 2 Web 2.0 Library 2.0

What I perceive these two Things to be:

Web 2.0 allows the user to interact and communicate thoughts and ideas to the world. Some of the tools used in Web 2.0 include Myspace, Facebook, photosharing, and blogging. These can contain opinions, whether factual or not, actual newspaper articles, and personal information. In using these tools the user must take extreme precautions in the release of your own personal information and the user must exercise judgment before assuming that all information contained on Web 2.0 in blogs, etc. is verified, competent information.

Library 2.0 is a concept which if utilized by the libraries would allow the library and its staff to use the Web 2.0 tools to more fully service its patrons. This could be through the use of blogs to promote the activities or programs of the library or even a MySpace page which could potentially allow comment and interaction with the public. The problems that the libraries may encounter in using the Web 2.0 tools in providing services to the public is the fact that there would be the possibility of inappropriate material being submitted by the public in the materials published to Web 2.0 by the libraries. Security of private information in the very public 2.0 is important.

With technology exploding, libraries are going to have to learn to use these tools in order to keep up with the new generation of library users who will be growing up with the computer and thus the world at their fingertips.